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Unfelt The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment / James Noggle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Noggle, James, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enlightenment--Great Britain.
- Enlightenment.
- Emotions in literature.
- English prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English prose literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "Offers a new account of feeling in British Enlightenment literature, showing how writers discreetly evoke a hidden layer of affect that supports and intensifies our strongly felt passions and sentiments"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : unfelt affect
- The insensible parts of Locke's essay
- David Hartley's ghost matter
- Vivacity and insensible association : Condillac and Hume
- Sentiment and secret consciousness : Haywood and Smith
- Unfeeling before sensibility
- External and invisible
- Insensible against involuntary in Burney
- Austen as coda
- The force of the thing : unfelt moeurs in French historiography
- The insensible revolution and Scottish historiography
- Gibbon in history
- The embrace of unfeeling
- Mandeville and the other happiness
- Feeling untaxed
- The money flow
- Invisible versus insensible
- Epilogue : insensible emergence of ideology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501770128
- 1501770128
- 9781501747137
- 1501747134
- OCLC:
- 1097462437
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